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You Should Enter “Darknet” On Netflix Immediately

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Bloody Disgusting reader Glenn F. sent me an e-mail last week tipping me off to a new series that just hit Netflix Instant.

“Darknet” – not to be confused with IFC’s feature – hails out of Canada from Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali, and even Ginger Snaps 2‘s Brett Sullivan.

Glenn explained that it was sort of a rip-off of our V/H/S films, as well as ABCs of Death, which prompted me to check it out. While I won’t say whether or not I think it’s lifting from the aforementioned films, I was highly impressed by it.

Darkness centers around the website http://darknetfiles.com/, and tells new stories each episode. There are 6 episodes in the inaugural season and each tell various tales that (usually) collide. There’s a very “Twilight Zone” vibe with “Tales From the Crypt”-esque finales that will definitely surprise you (even when you think you know what’s going to happen the filmmakers find a way to shock you).

It’s unfortunate there’s only 6 episodes available, but hopefully some positive momentum in the horror community will get a second season greenlit?

Go check it out this weekend and tell us what you think.

Check out several more teasers here.

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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